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Stem bowl with geometric frieze and pseudo-kufic inscription

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Syria (place of creation)
    Date
    13th century (1201 - 1300)
    Material and technique
    fritware, with underglaze painting in black, red, and blue
    Dimensions
    9.2 cm (height)
    12.6 cm (diameter)
    at foot 6 cm (diameter)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2214
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 371 on p. 128, illus. p. 128

Glossary (3)

fritware, kufic, underglaze painting

  • fritware

    Ceramic material composed of ground quartz and small quantities of clay and finely ground frit (frit is obtained by pouring molten glass into water).

  • kufic

    A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.

  • underglaze painting

    Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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